Contributing factors to this revision were availability of a few key components and their integration into the overall space flight program. The Project will provide public notice of its intended flights as soon as practicable under the auspices of the Ansari X PRIZE, notwithstanding the flight plans of any other competitor.

“The flight insurance for the 2 launches has been secured”, says Brian Feeney, Project Leader. “We’re still a go for launch. We’ve made milestone progress since the early August arrival of our title sponsor, Golden Palace.com and we intend to prove that Canadians can and will put a man into space”.

An anonymous highly placed source says; “A 2 WEEK delay..”

UPDATE: Alan Boyle: Less than 10 days before its scheduled rocket launch, the da Vinci Project says its bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize is on hold for the next few weeks. The postponement of the scheduled Oct. 2 launch means that Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne team has a clear shot at winning the $10 million in the next couple of weeks.

Da Vinci team leader Brian Feeney told the Toronto Star that his team’s balloon-based launch is being delayed because it could not be done safely in the previously planned time frame. “We’ve evaluated where we’re at in the project. We’re essentially short a couple of key pieces of hardware that is putting us a few weeks out of sync. Not (by) months, but not days,” the Star quoted Feeney as saying.

The Star said Feeney declined to specify what those pieces of hardware were.

Other articles:
space.com: Canadian X Prize Team Delays Launch Attempt
“[Feeney] still wants to be up and down by Oct. 16,” said Dan Gunnlaughson, Kindersley Airport manager and engineer. “So we’re talking days, maybe a week in delay.” (space.com seems to agree with a 14 days or 2 week delay)